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 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| stop building the internet backbone for DSL speeds There is an aggregate of backbone services that for every number of subscribers to a broadband service, be it 10,000 50,000 100,000 etc.. in a geographic region, there [should] be a scalable infrastructure to ramp up fiber centers (with a margin for rights of way to pass data along).. there were cries about this way back when--with the hope that broadband rates could rise and fee by the megabyte, etc would be charged..
With the rise of Internet-2 speeds and dedicated links that pale in comparison with throttled residential rates.. technology certainly is there to give economies of scale to the broadband era.. but backbone providers will fight tooth and nail for the maximum price per gigabit transmitted/received over their networks.. I don't think net neutrality has much to do with it, more like... greed.
I would compare the internet more to the national/international power grid... some places have great service.. then there's the 3rd world places of power generation... where rationing happens.. only problem-- the internet is not universal access.. quite yet.. even though we would say (here) that it is more and more a necessity in our lives. The reason being, when there are power problems (ie blackouts, service interruptions, price increases etc... its the blame game, anybody else is to blame but me syndrome) In the big recent northeast blackout, we blamed Canada... but it was some schmo in the Midwest who reversed a feeder cable and pulled the rug out from under the whole northeast power grid.. |
